News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange. Parent comment

Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by lorenzhs on Thursday June 04, 2020 @07:00AM (#23415007)
From my university network in Germany, I seem to get a direct London → Perth link and a total latency of 278ms. I couldn't find any information about a direct fiber between London and Australia, though there is one from London to Singapore, and AARNet seems to have presence in Singapore. My guess would be that there is some switching below the IP layer going on in Singapore as described by dicknuckle in a sibling comment.

     9  cr-fra2-be11.x-win.dfn.de (188.1.144.222)  15.360 ms  15.385 ms dfn.mx1.fra.de.geant.net (62.40.124.217)  15.021 ms
    10  ae7.mx1.ams.nl.geant.net (62.40.98.186)  21.806 ms dfn.mx1.fra.de.geant.net (62.40.124.217)  15.244 ms ae7.mx1.ams.nl.geant.net (62.40.98.186)  21.707 ms
    11  ae9.mx1.lon.uk.geant.net (62.40.98.129)  29.059 ms ae7.mx1.ams.nl.geant.net (62.40.98.186)  21.805 ms ae9.mx1.lon.uk.geant.net (62.40.98.129)  28.933 ms
    12  138.44.226.6 (138.44.226.6)  196.613 ms ae9.mx1.lon.uk.geant.net (62.40.98.129)  29.074 ms  29.156 ms
    13  138.44.226.6 (138.44.226.6)  196.807 ms et-7-3-0.pe1.wmlb.vic.aarnet.net.au (113.197.15.28)  277.463 ms 138.44.226.6 (138.44.226.6)  196.778 ms
    14  138.44.64.73 (138.44.64.73)  277.544 ms et-7-3-0.pe1.wmlb.vic.aarnet.net.au (113.197.15.28)  277.629 ms *
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by throwaway9d0291 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:27AM (#23415687)
I don't think it's Perth, the address has ".vic." in the name, which implies that the router in question is located in Victoria.

My guess is that there's a private network involved.

If you use AARNet's looking glass [0] it shows that its route to GEANT's London router goes through Singapore.

[0]: https://lg.aarnet.edu.au/cgi-bin/lg

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by lorenzhs on Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:08AM (#23417615)
Yeah you're right, "pe1" shows up in many of their hostnames with different states in the name. And their looking glass shows a bunch of hops within Australia, none of which show up when I do a traceroute.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by allarm on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:03PM (#23423944)
PE means provider edge. CE - customer edge.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by Swannie on Thursday June 04, 2020 @10:27PM (#23424410)
AARNet own subsea capacity to Singapore: https://www.aarnet.edu.au/network-and-services/the-network/i...

They also have a fairly extensive network of dark fiber and leased fiber in Australia.

I suspect they might have an onward wavelength service to London.

[ Parent | on HN ]